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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 18
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Israel is as potter’s clay in the hands of the Lord—If nations repent, the Lord withholds the evil decreed against them—The Jews shall be scattered.
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The</span> word which came to Jeremiah from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying,
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Arise, and go down to the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 19: 1 (1-2).">potter</a>’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
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Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
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And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make <i>it.</i>
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Then the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came to me, saying,
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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 45: 9; Rom. 9: 21; 2 Ne. 27: 27.">potter</a>?  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.  Behold, as the clay <i>is</i> in the potter’s hand, so <i>are</i> ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
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<i>At what</i> instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 1: 10.">pull</a> down, and to destroy <i>it;</i>
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If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Repentance.">turn</a> from their evil, I will <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/18/8b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR relent regarding the punishment.">repent</a> of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
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And <i>at what</i> instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant <i>it;</i>
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If it do <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 9: 12.">evil</a> in my sight, that it <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/18/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obey</a> not my voice, then I will repent of the <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/18/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 56: 4 (3-4); D&C 58: 32 (31-33).">good</a>, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
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&#182; Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
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And they said, There is no <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 57: 10; Jer. 2: 25.">hope</a>: but we will <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/18/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walk</a> after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
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Will <i>a man</i> leave the snow of Lebanon <i>which cometh</i> from the rock of the field?  <i>or</i> shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
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Because my people hath <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 2: 32.">forgotten</a> me, they have burned incense to <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/18/15b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR idols.">vanity</a>, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways <i>from</i> the ancient paths, to walk in <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/18/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 6: 16.">paths</a>, <i>in</i> a way not cast up;
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To make their land <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 19: 8; Micah 6: 16.">desolate</a>, <i>and</i> a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/18/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Zeph. 2: 15.">wag</a> his head.
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I will scatter them as with an <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 17: 10; Ezek. 27: 26; Mosiah 7: 31; Mosiah 12: 6.">east</a> wind before the enemy: I will shew them the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/18/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 2: 27.">back</a>, and not <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/18/17c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR my.">the</a> face, in the day of their calamity.
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&#182; Then said they, Come, and let us <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/18/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Rejection of.">devise</a> devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.  Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
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Give heed to me, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
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Shall evil be recompensed for good?  for they have digged a pit for my soul.  Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, <i>and</i> to turn away thy wrath from them.
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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their <i>blood</i> by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and <i>be</i> widows; and let their men be put to death; <i>let</i> their young men <i>be</i> slain by the sword in battle.
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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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Yet, <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay <i>me:</i> forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal <i>thus</i> with them in the time of thine anger.
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